As you can see from these Vintage Coney Island photos & postcards, This beach area just outside New York City was one of the most popular resorts in the United States.
Right from the ’50s, here are some classic tips to keep your kitchen cool when it’s hot outside, plus some easy recipes to help you beat the heat.
Squirt’s not sweet like other soft drinks. In fact, it’s definitely dry. It starts with sun-ripened citrus fruit and ends up with natural dryness, a quality never before achieved in soft drinks.
Before air conditioning and refrigerators existed, here’s how peolple managed to stay cool during the great New York heat wave of 1911.
Five flavors of whipped gelatin form this colorful, spectacular dessert: a rainbow cake – an eye-catching red, pink, orange, green and purple layered dessert recipe!
These vintage swimsuits from the ’50s said they’d ‘slim the hips, diminish the waist, and give your bustline the gently rounded new look.’ See
Remember vintage Doughboy pools? Some were big enough for adults and kids could learn to swim. Take a look back at above-ground poolls & retro wading pools!
A Victorian garden party may extend from afternoon into evening, or it may be entirely an evening affair, in which case the lawn and shrubberies are lighted by Japanese lanterns cleverly put about the place.
You never heard of frog lemonade? Probably not — it’s a Southern drink that is perfectly delicious, invented back in New Orleans, Louisiana around 1894.
‘I just bought the only vacation you can keep — a Coleco pool. Would you believe it cost me less than taking the family away for two weeks?”‘
Ideas for hot dog cornsticks, Pronto dogs, Frank-roll slices, hotdog boats, hot dog-bacon roll-ups, Herbed franks and rolls, Franks in blankets, Snappy frank-cheese rolls, Sauerkraut hot dogs, Frank-cheese burgers
It’s surprising what you can do with watermelon — cook it, chill it, pickle it — for a side dish, salad, dessert, drink, relish or topping. Here are some great watermelon recipes for you to try!
Midsummer night’s dream: A party menu plan for Juliets in search of Romeos This strategy works like charm. Invite lots of boys and wear your ruffly-est ruffles. Great food. Great fun. And no more lonely Saturday nights.
Here’s a recipe for a pink raspberry-angel food dessert, otherwise known as the “All’s-Well-That-Ends-Well Dessert” from a magazine recipe menu that called ‘Midsummer night’s dream: A party plan for Juliets in search of Romeos.’
For the boat, the beach, around the pool, or just a quiet drink on the porch, you’re invited you to try these summer rum drinks! Salud!
Tall, fruity coolers, with or without spirits, are much more refreshing than the usual carbonated soft drinks or heady cocktails. Try drink recipes like this red rum cooler, iced tea Hawaiian, Hawaiian rainbow or sunshine floats.
Make these ornaments in minutes for dazzling centerpieces or decorations. It’s so easy! You simply use straight pins to attach sequins and beads to Styrofoam forms.
These flouncy playsuits and bathing suits pose a considerable amount of skin, but are demurely decorated with pinafore necklines, little girl skirts, ruffles and bustles and bows.
Here are 37 different classic punch recipes to try — none with alcohol as an ingredient. The fruit juices and different varieties of carbonated waters and ginger ales will satisfy the palate, and cool you off in a most refreshing manner.
Ice cream salad recipes: Tomato ice cream, cucumber ice cream & avocado ice cream The tomato ice cream on the rocks [below] makes a frosty start
Don’t yawn your way through another summer sandwich. Get with these exciting new spreads you make yourself. Dipwiches: Sandwich spreads you make with dips!
The Majestic is an attractive house at all times of the year, but it is additionally so in the summer, because of its beautiful roof garden.
Banana Royale & “Swing Tassel” Clown Shaker Exciting coloring contest Presidential sundaes & peach sundae Personality dolls plus hot fudge sundae &
The young lioness swimsuits Brave… sensuous… graceful… beautiful… Don’t you want to be a young lioness this summer? Of course you do! Grrrrrrooowwwwlll! they’ll say
A thousand summer joys for the vacationist Rugged hills, grassy valleys, babbling streams, quiet bays, dusky woods, the surging surf Such are some of the
Lipton summer salad topping recipe & Lipton Chili Con Carne recipe No other soup — canned or mix — gives your recipes this special flavor California
Summer swimming in NYC Gotham’s youth are fortunate in the number of opportunities for swimming which the city’s configuration presents. Many a graceful and expert
Summer is for looking outdoors … so send the winter draperies to be cleaned and stored. In their place, drape lengths of fabric over the
Traveling requisites for the summer vacationist The trunk and traveling-bag maker is a wide awake man. He’s got to be so long as folks travel
Summer parties and entertaining duties never cease — there are always garden fetes, weekends, luncheons and bridge suppers to be planned and executed.
The charm of vacationing in New York — the ideal place for a summer resort — lies in the unrivaled transportation facilities of the great seaport.
You can think of these Victorian chocolate and coffee frappe recipes as precursors to Starbucks’ Frappuccino. You can even combine a couple and make an icy mocha frap of your own, courtesy of these recipes from the 19th century!
How to be a better cook …and save money, too! By Mary Blake, Carnation Home Service Director Ever discover a recipe so different you can hardly
Fun-savers for ’62… from Kodak Save all your summer fun in pictures? These fine Kodak camera make it easier than ever Beautiful 35mm slides without guesswork
Hail the red, white and blueberry. A simple summer dessert that’s frozen fantastic. Hurray for the magic of Eagle Brand! It’s the secret to this
6 different ways to preserve fresh raspberries Raspberries are such a perishable fruit that they should be preserved as soon as possible after their arrival
How to make 30 classic cocktails & drinks (1946) 
How to be a perfect ’50s housewife: In the kitchen 
Kitchen art cooking at the Tappan Gas Gallery (1968) 
See 130 vintage ’50s house plans used to build millions of mid-century homes that we still live in today 
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